Pros
I meet a couple good friends while working there, earning a paycheck, and learning life lessons.
Cons
Menards is a "dead end retail job" that acts unprofessional toward employees, doesn't give them the tools or the training to succeed, and think they own you and your time. I would never recommend employment there! The overall working environment is very toxic, hostile, negative, and very stressful. Management uses fear of job loss or threat of demotion to motivate on a daily basis. There's no loyalty to the hard working employees. Also, there is not very much appreciation or recognition for your hard work from your superiors. They allowed blatant examples of favoritism by superiors and verbal abuse of employees by customers and co-workers. They criticize your efforts by being rude to you and berating and belittling you. Micromanagement is a "very big" issue with Menards. Another big issue is that corporate penny pinches and cuts corners on everything and focuses more on catching mistakes then improving stores. Corporate expects a lot from employees, but offers little support to help them do their job efficiently. Also, every department in the store is understaffed. Corporate set up some of the craziest, write up happy rules and attendance policy I've ever seen for a workplace. They are ruthless. This made everyone worried about getting written up. Overall, very low standards as far as promoting employees to jobs they are not qualified or trained to perform. I admired the culture of hard work at Menards, but the overall talent level of the company is lacking. In general, the overall management is very unprofessional and incompetent and ran by people with no degrees or any knowledge of business what-so-ever. Most promotions into management are based on favoritism rather than on someone's qualifications. There slogan should be, "scratch one's back and be successful at Menards". Basically, training is all on you with little to no direction from management. FT benefits are sub-par (expensive health insurance co-pay for little coverage, no sick days, vacation time was minimal and required too much time to build days, the holiday bonus is store credit, employee discount is PRD and you can only spent up to a certain limit, and no 401K match). Low hourly wage (especially for managers) and there's no commission on sales. Basically, you will not have a work/life balance (especially managers) due to an outdated culture of all work and no play. All these cons resulted in a ridiculously high turnover rate.